Daniel Keys

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

I’m going to go down and take care of the bill. I’m not going to embarrass you, just let me do it. I had such a great time, I just want it to be my treat. [On returning after several minutes red faced] They won’t take my check, I don’t know what we’re going to do. [Robertson said ‘David, what we’ve spent here, we’re going to have to do a lot of dishes.’] I’m going to call Prince Rupert [Loewenstein] and ask him to call the hotel and tell them I’m good for it. Or maybe he can pay the bill and then I’ll pay him back or something. [Prince Rupert vouched for his credit and the hotel agreed to accept Geffen’s check.]

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

I do not like to be unkind.